When lickety-split-food workers started protesting just two years ago for a $15 minimum wage,they were mocked. This week, they secured their biggest victory yetWhen 200 New York restaurant workers walked out in the nation’s first-ever lickety-split-food strike in late 2012, and they were widely mocked for demanding minimum pay of $15 an hour,with some critics saying their demand was absurdly out of reach, akin to visiting Mars.
But this week a New York state panel appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo recommended establishing a $15 minimum wage for the state’s 180000 lickety-split-food workers. It was a landmark win for an unorthodox movement – the Fight for 15 – that is just two and a half years feeble. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com